My cossie has developed another rather annoying problem.

Everytime, the 10A fuse for my normal lights on my drivers side keep blowing.

Does anybody have ANY idea on how this is possible????
What do I need to look for?

 

Broken wire behind light/touching the body work IMO or rear light of course

 

Rear light for the front????

I wish I lived in the UK. Then all of this could be solved in minutes.

 

Oh right so when the fuse blows its only the front light which goes out???

If so doubt it will be damaged wire in the boot

 

It's indeed only the front that goes out.
And only the drivers side front that is.
Have looked at the wires and they do seem to look good.

 

Try a new bulb(s) see if that makes any difference

 

Nopez, it doesn't.
Already tried that.

 

Dunno then sorry

 

thought you had the gas discharge ones geert?

 

Hi Geert

you must have a short or a very low resistance from the drivers side light to Gnd. It could be the Blue/White wire giong to the main beam indicator lamp behind the instrument panel (touching ground, does the lamp work normally?), or the White wire to the Lamp connection.

1. Remove both headlamp mainbeam fuses.
2. Remove both headlamp connections, check with a meter the resistance from the White wire to Gnd, it should be high resistance,(open.circuit). Compare the result from Left and Right sides.
3. Check the resistance from 12V in to Gnd in each headlamp unit, the reading should not be zero. (or simply unplug the lamp unit, install a fuse and switch on headlights, does the fuse blow?
Yes = wiring problem.
No = Lamp problem.

Hopefully you didn't fit 130Watt mainbeam rally bulbs?

Mfg
Kenny.

 

Kenny,

Your still alive my friend.

And now in plain English please???? Don't understand a thing you just said.

Nopez, didn't fit 130watt mainbeam rally bulbs.

At first, the drivers side bulb was out. So I thought that the light itself had blown. After many tryout, I finally was able to change the lights and they worked perfectly. However, the fuse of the drivers side bulb blew again and again I had no lights. It always works for a couple of minutes and then --> WHAM, no more mainbeam light on that side.

 

Just thinking now but could this problem be related to the relay on the fuse box???

 

A little late but found the problem.

It was the height regulating thingie on the drivers side that was the problem. The wire going into that were rubbing against the power steering reservoir and had come loose causing a short and blowing the fuse.

Problem solved now.